Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Quote of the day

MANIFESTO

As democratic institutions and social safety nets are increasingly considered dispensable luxuries, the task of governance will be to lower the political and economic expectations of the masses without inciting full-fledged revolt.
— Ando Arike writing about governments' new methods of crowd control in the latest Harpers
This is what it's come to as the notion of government of the people, by the people, and for the people twists slowly in the wind.

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